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She’s One of the Best - Natasha Romanoff (from What If…?)

Natasha gets put through the wringer in this series. In Episode 3, one variant of her is framed for murdering Tony Stark after administering the cure for his palladium poisoning (but was actually Hank Pym using his Pym Particles to shrink down and murder Tony Stark). Then she loses Clint Barton when he gets targeted by the same person who killed Tony, Bruce Banner, and Thor, because they were all part of the Avengers initiative. And finally, she gets murdered herself after finding out who’s behind all the murders. In Episode 8, another variant of her loses almost all of her teammates after Ultron launches a nuclear holocaust around the world, leaving her and Clint the only two survivors in a world full of metal. There’s a brief little hope when they decide to try and upload Arnim Zola into one of the Ultron bots to destroy Ultron from the inside out. Unfortunately, Ultron is out of range because he just discovered there are more multiverses for him to conquer and destroy with the Infinity Stones. Then, Clint Barton, grieving the loss of his family and telling Natasha that he doesn’t want to fight anymore, sacrifices himself (in a reverse of Natasha’s sacrifice from Avengers: Endgame), leaving her the last human in that world. By the time Natasha helps the other Guardians of the Multiverse destroy Ultron in Episode 9 and it seems like it’s time for her to go back to her own universe, she’s rather hesitant to go back and calls out Uatu on the fact that he doesn’t care about them all, they’re just stories. Luckily, she doesn’t get to go back to that universe where she’s the last human on Earth. Instead, Uatu places her in a universe that lost its Black Widow (specifically, the same universe where almost all of the Avengers were killed).

He Suffers from Loss - Strange Supreme (from What If…?)

Now, I’m not at all fond of the Sacred Timeline version of Stephen Strange. However, I actually ended up developing a little sympathy and fondness for this version of Stephen Strange. In this universe, instead of losing the use of his hands in the fateful car accident, he ends up losing Christine Palmer, the love of his life, resulting in him seeking out Kamar-Taj and the Mystic Arts to search for a way to undo her death. Two years later, he uses the Eye of Agamotto to go back in time and undo her death. Unfortunately, Christine’s death is an Absolute Point, and he doesn’t listen to any and all attempts from Wong, The Ancient One, O’Bengh, and his literal better half to warn him from trying to create a paradox to prevent her death. I probably would’ve stopped sympathizing with him at this point because everyone tried to warn him, what he's doing is selfish (as a comment pointed out on a post about how I felt bad for what happened to him at the end of Episode 4), and whatever happens to him after that point (centuries alone in the crystallized remains of his universe until he gets to leave it for a little bit to deal with Ultron and then goes back with Killmonger and Zola-Ultron imprisoned in their own miniature universe fighting over the Infinity Stones to keep an eye on them so they don’t escape) is fully deserved, if not for Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance as detailed below.

She’s Abused - Pink Pearl (from Steven Universe: Future)

When we’re first introduced to Pink Pearl after she’s spent some time as a puppet of White Diamond in the episode, “Volleyball”, she’s here to see Steven to see if maybe he can fix her cracked eye. Unfortunately, his healing spit has no effect on her cracked eye and, when they go to the Reef to try and fix her, Shell can’t fix her either. As it turns out, her gem isn’t cracked and her cracked eye is a psychological manifestation of trauma. When Pearl demands to know how White Diamond could be so careless with Pink Pearl, Pink Pearl nonchalantly reveals that she has it all wrong and that Pink Diamond was responsible. And much like any abused victim tries to minimize the damage their abuser did to them, Pink Pearl reveals that once Pink Diamond got tired of asking Yellow and Blue for her own colony, she went straight to White Diamond, who told her she wasn’t fit to run a colony, and that sent her off into a fit that resulted in Pink Pearl getting hurt. Then it turns out she isn’t as fine as she claims to be when Steven loses his temper and screams that he doesn’t want to hear or think about one more horrible thing his mother did and that he just wants to fix Pink Pearl, resulting in his yell doing some considerable damage to the Reef and Pink Pearl nervously curling up into a little ball, shivering and whimpering in fear all the while. By the end of her episode, she and Pearl have a better understanding of what made Pink Diamond change after they fuse together to become Mega Pearl and escape being rejuvenated. The most powerful lines before they fuse:

“I was badly hurt. How did you stop hurting?”
“*Pearl hugs Pink Pearl* I didn’t.”

He’s Disabled - John Merrick (from The Elephant Man)

John Merrick goes through hell. He’s spent some time of his life in a Victorian freak show, he manages to escape and take up residence in a hospital, he gets abducted by the same abusive ringmaster and forced to be an attraction again, but manages to escape again with help from the other attractions, he’s harassed by several young boys, and then chased and cornered by an angry mob. He manages to get them to stop by screaming, “I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I…am…a man!” By the end, he’s dying of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but manages to have the best day of his life where he’s accepted by society and, at the end of the day, when it’s time to go to bed, he removes all the pillows from his bed and lays down with just one pillow and dies in his sleep.

He Suffers from Guilt - Vivo (from the eponymous movie)

The plot of this movie is kicked off when Vivo’s owner, Andrés, receives a letter from an old flame, Marta Sandoval, inviting him to join her for her last farewell concert at the Mambo Cabana in Miami, Florida. Vivo ends up leaving Andrés in a huff, thinking he’s going to be abandoned for Marta. But when he wonders out loud how one song can make a difference, he sees the palm tree where Andrés rescued him from a couple dogs when he was a baby and, after remembering how Andrés took care of him, he comes around, returns to Andrés, and, upon seeing him sleeping, decides to pack his suitcase for the trip and wait until he wakes up the next morning to properly apologize. However, when he does go to apologize the next morning, Vivo discovers that Andrés passed in his sleep. What makes it worse is that Andrés wasn’t mad at him for being huffy and knew that he needed time to process and come around. But because Vivo didn’t talk to him, he still feels guilty regardless and it also sets in motion his decision to make the trip to Miami to deliver Andrés’ last song to Marta.

Subtext - Frank Bledsoe (Uncle Frank)

She Can’t Catch A Break - Sayaka Miki (from Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

He’s Misunderstood - Francoeur (from A Monster in Paris)

He’s Innocent - The Iron Giant (from the eponymous movie)

She's Desperate - Mirabel Madrigal (from Encanto)

She Tries But Often Fails - Homura Akemi (from Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

I’ve Been In Her Place - Charlie Watson (from Bumblebee)

Her Dreams Were Crushed - Tiana (from The Princess and The Frog)

Their Cruel Fate - Seth Brundle and Veronica “Ronnie" Quaife (The Fly - 1986 and The Fly II)

They both fall deeply in love with each other, but then a misunderstanding leads to a drunken Seth climbing into a telepod without waiting for any tests to be performed on the baboon that just went through…with a common housefly, resulting in him being fused with the fly on a molecular-genetic level. He begins mutating into a monster and Ronnie has to deal with being pregnant with his baby, which could’ve been conceived before or after the fateful teleportation. Knowing he’s losing his human compassion and reason, Seth tries to send her away, warning her to never return because he won’t be able to protect her from himself. Unfortunately, that’s before he finds out about her pregnancy when he overhears her begging her ex-boyfriend/boss, Stathis Borans, to arrange for an abortion immediately when he goes up to the roof to watch her leave. He then proceeds to abduct Ronnie from the abortion clinic once she’s left alone in an operating room and begs her to have the baby, believing that it might be all that’s left of “the real me”, and Ronnie tearfully replies that she can’t. By the time he brings her back to his lab to fuse himself with Ronnie and their unborn baby in a last-ditch attempt to regain his humanity, he ends up transforming into Brundlefly completely after she ends up accidentally ripping his jaw off during a struggle. Ronnie manages to escape her fate, with some help from Stathis shooting out the cable of the telepod she was thrown into. Brundlefly, on the other hand, isn’t so lucky and gets merged with his telepod in the middle of trying to break out of it. In one last act of humanity, he silently begs Ronnie to end his agony by pointing the barrel of the shotgun she’s wielding at his head. After some painful hesitation on Ronnie’s part, she complies. And then nine months later, after being tricked by her late lover’s employer into carrying the baby she didn’t want to term with the promise that the birth would be a normal process, she gives birth to a larval sac containing her baby and, upon seeing what she’s given birth to, goes into cardiac arrest and dies in childbirth.

Nobody Helps Him - Peter Parker/Spiderman (MCU-verse)

Sure, he had some help, but as of the end of the latest Spider-Man movie, he's on his own from here on out.

Nobody Forgives Him - Héctor Rivera (from Coco)

She Has No One to Love - Eponine Thenardier (from Les Miserables)

Because of His Performance - Strange Supreme (from What If…?)

When this series was announced, if anyone had told me Benedict Cumberbatch would reprise his role as Stephen Strange and do a damn good job of ripping my heart out of my chest with a surprisingly moving performance in Episode 4, I would’ve laughed them off. If I wasn’t sold on his performance from the moment Strange screams a rather heart-wrenching “NO!” after his latest and final attempt to save Christine by trying to sacrifice his life for hers fails, then I was pretty much sold at the end when Christine fades out of existence and a remorseful Strange breaks down sobbing and cries out in the empty space where his universe used to be, “I’m sorry…I am so, so sorry…”

Those Who Hate Him - Peter Quill/Star-Lord (from Marvel Cinematic Universe)

The Setting’s Impact - Katniss Everdeen (from The Hunger Games series)

Her Society’s Impact - Parvana (from The Breadwinner)

He Can’t Handle It All - Steven DeMayo Quartz Universe (from Steven Universe)

Her Struggles Feel Real - Wanda Maximoff (from WandaVision)

Because I Can - Pitch Black (from Rise of the Guardians)

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She’s One of the Best - Natasha Romanoff (from What If…?)

Natasha gets put through the wringer in this series. In Episode 3, one variant of her is framed for murdering Tony Stark after administering the cure for his palladium poisoning (but was actually Hank Pym using his Pym Particles to shrink down and murder Tony Stark). Then she loses Clint Barton when he gets targeted by the same person who killed Tony, Bruce Banner, and Thor, because they were all part of the Avengers initiative. And finally, she gets murdered herself after finding out who’s behind all the murders. In Episode 8, another variant of her loses almost all of her teammates after Ultron launches a nuclear holocaust around the world, leaving her and Clint the only two survivors in a world full of metal. There’s a brief little hope when they decide to try and upload Arnim Zola into one of the Ultron bots to destroy Ultron from the inside out. Unfortunately, Ultron is out of range because he just discovered there are more multiverses for him to conquer and destroy with the Infinity Stones. Then, Clint Barton, grieving the loss of his family and telling Natasha that he doesn’t want to fight anymore, sacrifices himself (in a reverse of Natasha’s sacrifice from Avengers: Endgame), leaving her the last human in that world. By the time Natasha helps the other Guardians of the Multiverse destroy Ultron in Episode 9 and it seems like it’s time for her to go back to her own universe, she’s rather hesitant to go back and calls out Uatu on the fact that he doesn’t care about them all, they’re just stories. Luckily, she doesn’t get to go back to that universe where she’s the last human on Earth. Instead, Uatu places her in a universe that lost its Black Widow (specifically, the same universe where almost all of the Avengers were killed).

He Suffers from Loss - Strange Supreme (from What If…?)

Now, I’m not at all fond of the Sacred Timeline version of Stephen Strange. However, I actually ended up developing a little sympathy and fondness for this version of Stephen Strange. In this universe, instead of losing the use of his hands in the fateful car accident, he ends up losing Christine Palmer, the love of his life, resulting in him seeking out Kamar-Taj and the Mystic Arts to search for a way to undo her death. Two years later, he uses the Eye of Agamotto to go back in time and undo her death. Unfortunately, Christine’s death is an Absolute Point, and he doesn’t listen to any and all attempts from Wong, The Ancient One, O’Bengh, and his literal better half to warn him from trying to create a paradox to prevent her death. I probably would’ve stopped sympathizing with him at this point because everyone tried to warn him, what he's doing is selfish (as a comment pointed out on a post about how I felt bad for what happened to him at the end of Episode 4), and whatever happens to him after that point (centuries alone in the crystallized remains of his universe until he gets to leave it for a little bit to deal with Ultron and then goes back with Killmonger and Zola-Ultron imprisoned in their own miniature universe fighting over the Infinity Stones to keep an eye on them so they don’t escape) is fully deserved, if not for Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance as detailed below.

She’s Abused - Pink Pearl (from Steven Universe: Future)

When we’re first introduced to Pink Pearl after she’s spent some time as a puppet of White Diamond in the episode, “Volleyball”, she’s here to see Steven to see if maybe he can fix her cracked eye. Unfortunately, his healing spit has no effect on her cracked eye and, when they go to the Reef to try and fix her, Shell can’t fix her either. As it turns out, her gem isn’t cracked and her cracked eye is a psychological manifestation of trauma. When Pearl demands to know how White Diamond could be so careless with Pink Pearl, Pink Pearl nonchalantly reveals that she has it all wrong and that Pink Diamond was responsible. And much like any abused victim tries to minimize the damage their abuser did to them, Pink Pearl reveals that once Pink Diamond got tired of asking Yellow and Blue for her own colony, she went straight to White Diamond, who told her she wasn’t fit to run a colony, and that sent her off into a fit that resulted in Pink Pearl getting hurt. Then it turns out she isn’t as fine as she claims to be when Steven loses his temper and screams that he doesn’t want to hear or think about one more horrible thing his mother did and that he just wants to fix Pink Pearl, resulting in his yell doing some considerable damage to the Reef and Pink Pearl nervously curling up into a little ball, shivering and whimpering in fear all the while. By the end of her episode, she and Pearl have a better understanding of what made Pink Diamond change after they fuse together to become Mega Pearl and escape being rejuvenated. The most powerful lines before they fuse:

“I was badly hurt. How did you stop hurting?”
“*Pearl hugs Pink Pearl* I didn’t.”

He’s Disabled - John Merrick (from The Elephant Man)

John Merrick goes through hell. He’s spent some time of his life in a Victorian freak show, he manages to escape and take up residence in a hospital, he gets abducted by the same abusive ringmaster and forced to be an attraction again, but manages to escape again with help from the other attractions, he’s harassed by several young boys, and then chased and cornered by an angry mob. He manages to get them to stop by screaming, “I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I…am…a man!” By the end, he’s dying of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but manages to have the best day of his life where he’s accepted by society and, at the end of the day, when it’s time to go to bed, he removes all the pillows from his bed and lays down with just one pillow and dies in his sleep.

He Suffers from Guilt - Vivo (from the eponymous movie)

The plot of this movie is kicked off when Vivo’s owner, Andrés, receives a letter from an old flame, Marta Sandoval, inviting him to join her for her last farewell concert at the Mambo Cabana in Miami, Florida. Vivo ends up leaving Andrés in a huff, thinking he’s going to be abandoned for Marta. But when he wonders out loud how one song can make a difference, he sees the palm tree where Andrés rescued him from a couple dogs when he was a baby and, after remembering how Andrés took care of him, he comes around, returns to Andrés, and, upon seeing him sleeping, decides to pack his suitcase for the trip and wait until he wakes up the next morning to properly apologize. However, when he does go to apologize the next morning, Vivo discovers that Andrés passed in his sleep. What makes it worse is that Andrés wasn’t mad at him for being huffy and knew that he needed time to process and come around. But because Vivo didn’t talk to him, he still feels guilty regardless and it also sets in motion his decision to make the trip to Miami to deliver Andrés’ last song to Marta.

Subtext - Frank Bledsoe (Uncle Frank)

She Can’t Catch A Break - Sayaka Miki (from Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

He’s Misunderstood - Francoeur (from A Monster in Paris)

He’s Innocent - The Iron Giant (from the eponymous movie)

She's Desperate - Mirabel Madrigal (from Encanto)

She Tries But Often Fails - Homura Akemi (from Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

I’ve Been In Her Place - Charlie Watson (from Bumblebee)

Her Dreams Were Crushed - Tiana (from The Princess and The Frog)

Their Cruel Fate - Seth Brundle and Veronica “Ronnie" Quaife (The Fly - 1986 and The Fly II)

They both fall deeply in love with each other, but then a misunderstanding leads to a drunken Seth climbing into a telepod without waiting for any tests to be performed on the baboon that just went through…with a common housefly, resulting in him being fused with the fly on a molecular-genetic level. He begins mutating into a monster and Ronnie has to deal with being pregnant with his baby, which could’ve been conceived before or after the fateful teleportation. Knowing he’s losing his human compassion and reason, Seth tries to send her away, warning her to never return because he won’t be able to protect her from himself. Unfortunately, that’s before he finds out about her pregnancy when he overhears her begging her ex-boyfriend/boss, Stathis Borans, to arrange for an abortion immediately when he goes up to the roof to watch her leave. He then proceeds to abduct Ronnie from the abortion clinic once she’s left alone in an operating room and begs her to have the baby, believing that it might be all that’s left of “the real me”, and Ronnie tearfully replies that she can’t. By the time he brings her back to his lab to fuse himself with Ronnie and their unborn baby in a last-ditch attempt to regain his humanity, he ends up transforming into Brundlefly completely after she ends up accidentally ripping his jaw off during a struggle. Ronnie manages to escape her fate, with some help from Stathis shooting out the cable of the telepod she was thrown into. Brundlefly, on the other hand, isn’t so lucky and gets merged with his telepod in the middle of trying to break out of it. In one last act of humanity, he silently begs Ronnie to end his agony by pointing the barrel of the shotgun she’s wielding at his head. After some painful hesitation on Ronnie’s part, she complies. And then nine months later, after being tricked by her late lover’s employer into carrying the baby she didn’t want to term with the promise that the birth would be a normal process, she gives birth to a larval sac containing her baby and, upon seeing what she’s given birth to, goes into cardiac arrest and dies in childbirth.

Nobody Helps Him - Peter Parker/Spiderman (MCU-verse)

Sure, he had some help, but as of the end of the latest Spider-Man movie, he's on his own from here on out.

Nobody Forgives Him - Héctor Rivera (from Coco)

She Has No One to Love - Eponine Thenardier (from Les Miserables)

Because of His Performance - Strange Supreme (from What If…?)

When this series was announced, if anyone had told me Benedict Cumberbatch would reprise his role as Stephen Strange and do a damn good job of ripping my heart out of my chest with a surprisingly moving performance in Episode 4, I would’ve laughed them off. If I wasn’t sold on his performance from the moment Strange screams a rather heart-wrenching “NO!” after his latest and final attempt to save Christine by trying to sacrifice his life for hers fails, then I was pretty much sold at the end when Christine fades out of existence and a remorseful Strange breaks down sobbing and cries out in the empty space where his universe used to be, “I’m sorry…I am so, so sorry…”

Those Who Hate Him - Peter Quill/Star-Lord (from Marvel Cinematic Universe)

The Setting’s Impact - Katniss Everdeen (from The Hunger Games series)

Her Society’s Impact - Parvana (from The Breadwinner)

He Can’t Handle It All - Steven DeMayo Quartz Universe (from Steven Universe)

Her Struggles Feel Real - Wanda Maximoff (from WandaVision)

Because I Can - Pitch Black (from Rise of the Guardians)

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